Two eleven-year-old girls from the Australian bush, who were sent to live with Pixie's grandmother, in the 1920s, to attend the same private high-school in the city.

Pixie and Molly are arch enemies, as different as sugar and spice. During the 1920s, they are forced to leave home to attend high school - together. They travel hundreds of miles from the tiny settlement of Coolwong, deep in the Australian outback, to a big country town - together. The girls begin a new life with a new family. Together they fight, laugh, join the Girl Guides, fly in a biplane, discover Rudolph Valentino - and together, they grow up to understand one another. A warm, humorous and exciting story of two very strong-willed girls and the development of a most unlikely friendship.